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'What a debut for the young goalkeeper, as a striker.' - PETER DRURY 

'What did you say to Souness after the end of the final whistle?' - TONY GUBBA 

'It was one of the best goals I've seen this millennium.' - TONY GUBBA 

'Bruce, on his right foot, is still running...' - ALAN GREEN 

'Signori has all the tricks up his book.' - RAY WILKINS 

'He'd no alternative but to make a needless tackle.' - PAUL ELLIOTT 

'Tomorrow, the whole of Newcastle vs Manchester United.' - IAN PAYNE 

'The long goal kick, and this could fall...' - GERALD SINSTADT

'He went through a non-existent gap.' - CLIVE TYLDESLEY 

'Peru score their third, and it's 3-1 to Scotland.' - DAVID COLEMAN 

'A game is not won until it is lost.' - DAVID PLEAT 

'Wimbledon are putting balls into the blender.' - RODNEY MARSH 

'Sampdoria are real, but they can't play in the Spanish league with the other Real's.' - GRAHAM JOFFE

'Not only has the referee shown him the red card, but he's sent him off.' - CHRIS KAMARA

'Merseyside derbies usually last 90 minutes and I'm sure today's won't be any different.' - TREVOR BROOKING

'Dumbarton player Steve McCahill has limped off with a badly cut forehead.' - TOM FERRIE

'And Arsenal now have plenty of time to dictate the last few seconds.' - PETER JONES

'Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer.' - DAVID ACKFIELD

'He's one of those footballers whose brains are in his head.' - DEREK JOHNSTONE

'It was that game that put the Everton ship back on the road.' - ALAN GREEN

'Celtic were at one time nine points ahead, but somewhere along the road, their ship went off the rails.' -RICHARD PARK

'That's football, Mike, Northern Ireland have had several chances and haven't scored but England have had no chances and scored twice.' - TREVOR BROOKING

'And with 4 minutes gone, the score is already 0-0.' - IAN DARK

'The Uruguayans are losing no time in making a meal around the referee.' - MIKE INGHAM

'You have got to miss them to score sometimes.' - DAVE BASSETT

'Celtic manager Davie Hay still has a fresh pair of legs up his sleeve.' - JOHN GREIG 

'It's headed away by John Clark, using his head.' - DEREK RAE 

'Tottenham are trying tonight to become the first London team to win this Cup. The last team to do so was the 1973 Spurs side.' - MIKE INGHAM

'He's very fast and if he gets a yard ahead of himself nobody will catch him.' - BOBBY ROBSON 

'Both sides have scored a couple of goals, and both sides have conceded a couple of goals.' - PETER WITHE 

'I was saying the other day, how often the most vulnerable area for goalies is between their legs...' - ANDY GRAY 

'We say `educated left foot'... of course, there are many players with educated right foots.' - RON JONES 

'That's twice now he [Terry Phelan] has got between himself and the goal.' - BRIAN MARWOOD

JOHNATHON PEARCE: 'So Joe, do you think Leeds will win, lose or draw this game?'
JOE ROYLE: 'I should think so.'

'The problem is that the opportunities for the Parisians can be counted on the fingers of just one hand, there have been none.' - JEAN-MICHEL LARQUÉ

'The Marseilles side has tried nine times to kick nine times in goal; the Lenses side only three! This doubtlessly explains the zero-zero score.' - LUCIEN DABILA 

'The score is 1-1, it could easily be the other way round.' - HERIBERT FAßBENDER

'There's half an hour of playing time left, no, a little bit more, exactly 15 minutes.' - WERNER SCHNEIDER

'Hodge scored for Forest after 22 seconds - totally against the run of play' - PETER LORENZO

'Glasgow Rangers don't play like a Scottish team…they play like a football team.' - THIERRY ROLAND

'I think he's right footed on both feet.' - GUY ROUX

'There are all the great European countries represented: Spain, Italy, France, Japan.' - CYRIL LINETTE

'The silence is getting louder.' - DAVE WOODS 

'Martin O'Neill, standing, hands on hips, stroking his chin.' - MIKE INGHAM 

Lampard, as usual, arrived in the nick of time, but it wasn't quite soon enough.' - ALAN PARRY 

'Now Zola tries to inject some speed.' - RON JONES 

'There's Bergkamp standing on the halfway line, with his hands on his hips, flailing his arms about.' - JOHN SCALES

'52,000 here tonight, but it sounds like 50,000.' - BRYON BUTLER 

'Scotland don't have to score tonight, but they do have to win.' - BILLY MCNEILL

'It's deja vu all over again.' - GARY BLOOM 

'The referee was only five or seven yards away from that incident.' - PETER DRURY

'Martin Keown is up everybody's backsides.' - TREVOR BROOKING

'Hearts are now playing with a five man back four.' - ALAN MCINALLY

'Germany are probably, arguably, undisputed champions of Europe.' - BRYAN HAMILTON 

'For such a small man Maradona gets great elevation on his balls.' - DAVID PLEAT



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